We tried our level best to save him: Medical Superintendent AIIMS
SRINAGAR: Prominent cardiologist of Kashmir, Dr S Jalaluddin, who was seriously wounded in a militant attack last month, has died in New Delhi.
Medical Superintendent of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, D.K. Sharma told FreePress that Dr Jalal passed away at 8:30 am on Saturday.
His body is likely to reach Srinagar in the afternoon.
Jalal had received bullet injuries in the head after militants fired and killed his two bodyguards in Pampore area of south Kashmir on July 18, police said. The attackers also fled with a weapon of one of the slain guards.
No militant group, however, claimed responsibility for the attack. The police were also looking into whether the doctor was the actual target or just his guards.
Jalal was first operated upon at the Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar – the valley’s top hospital which he once headed as a director. He had lost his eyesight.
He was later shifted to the AIIMS where a team of neurosurgeons treated him for more than two weeks.
“We tried our level best to save him,” Mr Sharma said.
He said the most likely cause of death in such cases was cardiac arrest.
Doctors in the valley have expressed their condolences over Dr Jalal’s death.
“It is an irreparable loss and the void created thereby can’t be fulfilled by any means. We have lost an Icon whose credentials and caliber were par excellence,” said a statement by the Field Doctors Welfare Association Kashmir.
